by on November 12th, 2008
This script will allow you to quietly follow a user’s updates on Twitter without listing them on your profile or adding you to their list of followers.
The Shadow script for Twitter is an experiment in seeing how being able to quietly follow other users updates will effect people’s perception of the value of following to follower ratios.
...continue readingby on November 7th, 2008
This script will add a search form and list of hot topics as a banner on Twitter.com.
I’ve previously written some scripts that make small modifications to the design of Twitter, help you see threaded Twitter conversations, and even stop unwanted ads on Twitter from being displayed. This script was a bit more ambitious, but also a lot more useful! I’ve wanted to be able to do searches from the Twitter homepage for a long time now, and seeing the hot topics – and not having them limited to just politics – is an added bonus for anyone interested in marketing and trend-watching.
...continue readingby on November 3rd, 2008
Magpie is a recently introduced service that inserts advertising into a users list of posts on Twitter. Scarecrow is a greasemonkey script that will stop these ads being displayed on your view of Twitter allowing you to “opt out” of the service. Other users have suggested simply unfollowing users who use the Magpie service, but I think this script gives people another option they might prefer.
...continue readingby on October 31st, 2008
TwitterScope will display Twitter posts from a specified user and all @replies to that user. Having all the posts on a single page makes it much easier to follow the rest of the conversation if it involves people you’re not yet following.
Twitter makes it easy to follow updates posted friends, colleagues and people you find interesting, but it can sometimes be difficult to make sense of these posts when the person is replying to someone you aren’t yet following. It can be even more confusing if they’re replying a number of different people at once.
I often found myself wanting to read all of the posts that are part of a Twitter discussion, just like on a message board, and ideally without having to do a lot of extra clicking to do it. Since I couldn’t find any 3rd party apps that did this, I decided to write one myself.
...continue readingby on September 18th, 2008
However, what I found most interesting about the updated design wasn’t the visual differences. There is also one important coding change: each tweet now has html you can use to identify it and control it’s formatting with CSS.
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